SMALL SIZE SOFT COVER-CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE AND FOXING DUE TO AGE ..SMALL SECTION ON BACK PAGE MISSING - WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE IF POSSIBLE..Marigold Trent, an Australian girl in Adelaide in the 1930s, has two dreams - becoming a famous newspaper reporter and finding out how her father came to kill himself. The author of this novel also wrote "All the Rivers Run", "The Heart of the Continent", "A Distant Island" and "Forefathers".